Guilty Gear Strive photo mode update makes fighters disappear when viewed at inappopriate angles

Guilty Gear Strive‘s latest update makes it harder for players to view its characters from inappropriate angles.

As reported by Automaton, the game’s latest version 1.41 update includes a change to its Digital Figure mode, which is a photo mode where the player can choose a fighter from the game and rotate and zoom the camera around them.

The game’s patch note reportedly reads: “We have adjusted the display restriction area that makes the figure invisible when certain parts of the figure are captured by the camera.”

In practice, what this appears to mean is that when players position the camera to look at more intimate parts of the character’s body, the character will disappear until the camera is moved away.

While this is obviously more relevant to the female fighters in the game, some of whom have revealing outfits, it’s reported that it’s possible to make male characters disappear too when viewed from certain angles (such as looking directly up at them from below).

【GGST】突然レーティングがCERO Cに変更された「ギルティギア ストライヴ」のデジタルフィギュアモードの調整内容 – 「フィギュアの特定部位をカメラで映すとフィギュアが非表示になる表示制限エリアを調整しました。」 pic.twitter.com/069CfqlIwW

— Furious (@Furious_blog) November 20, 2024

Although the reason for the update hasn’t been confirmed by Arc System Works, it may be down to the recent decision by Japanese rating board CERO to change the game’s rating.

As of Wednesday, the game’s rating changed from CERO B (which made it appropriate for players aged 12+) to CERO C (which is for players aged 15+).

Because the CERO C rating is given to games which have significant violence, horror or sexual content, the patch may be a response to this.